Get Top Level Folder Usage

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This is too long to tweet, even written as a one liner. But this will search a folder for top level subfolders and return the file usage for each.

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$folder="S:\"
dir $folder | where {$_.psIscontainer} | foreach {
$stat= dir $_.fullname -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -Sum
New-Object PSObject -property @{Folder=$_.FullName;Files=$stat.count;Size=$stat.Sum;}}
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Again, this would be handy to turn into a function or scriptblock. This is far from perfect. For example, it doesn't like empty folders. But this should be a good starting point for your own script or function.

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5 thoughts on “Get Top Level Folder Usage”

  1. Awesome. Thank you.

    I don’t like empty folders either, so that’s ok 🙂

  2. Thank you very much I have been looking for something like this for the past 2 days. I just didn’t know the correct verbage to use while I was searching google. As I am still really new to powershell I was wondering is there a way to export this to a CSV file?
    I am shooting in the dark here would it be something similar to:
    $stat | export-csv -path test.csv

    Thanks for the one liner
    Rudy

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